Phonograph-record cabinet.



H. G. LA SGH.`

PHONOGRAPH RECORD CABINET.

APPLICATION FILED IIIAY 2. Isls.

Pan'd oen 9,1917.

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0F LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.

PHONOGBAPE-BEOOBD CABINET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 9, 1917.

Application med my 2, 1916. Serial No. 84,911.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, HERBERT G. LA Son, a citizen of the United States, residing at Los Angeles, in the county of Los Angeles and State of California, have invented new and useful Improvements in Phonograph- Record Cabinets, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to phonograph record cabinets, and particularl to cabinets for the storage or housing ofY disk phonograph records, and the invention has for its object to provide a cabinet of the general nature stated in which disk phonograph records of all diameters up to the maximum for which any "particular cabinet is designed may be conveniently placed, proper y classified, and from which the same may be individually ejected or projected for use as desired.

A further object of the invention is to rovide receivin and ejecting means for isk record cabinets, which will be relativel superior in point of inexpensiveness, sim icity in construction and compactness in orm, ositiveness and eiliciency in operation, and freedom from liability to get out of repair or order, and convenience in use, and which wil1 be generally superior in serviceability.

With th`e above and other objects in view, the invention consists in the novel and useful provision, formation, construction, combination, association and relative 'arrangement of parts, members and features, all `as hereinafter described, shown in the drawing, and iinall pointed out in claims.

In the rawingr:

Figure 1 is a agmentary isometric view of a phonogra h record cabinet, constructed and organize in accordance with the invention, arts being broken away for clearness of 1 lustration;

Fi 2 is an enlarged central vertical sectiona view taken on the line -u, Fig. 1, and looking in the direction of the appended arrows;

Fig. 8 is a fragmentary sectional view taken on the line w-wF1g. 2, and looking in the direction of the appended arrows;

Fig. 4 is a still further enlarged isometric view of certain features shown in Fi 2 and 3, the same being shown in detach position; and

Fig. 5 is an enlarged fra entary detail horlzontal sectional view tan on the line :v5-m5, Fig. 2 and looking in the direction of the appended arrows.

Corresponding parts in all of the figures are designated by the same reference char acters.

Referring with particularity to the draw- 111g, in the embodiment of the invention therein shown, A desilates the casing of a disk record cabinet, Y designates a keyboard C designates spacing means for the recor s, D designates ejection means, E designates, in each instance, a phonographc record, and F designates retarding means fop1 preventing complete ejection of the recor s.

The cabinet A may be formed of an suitable material and comprises a top Wa l 6, a bottom wall 7, a rear wall 8, side walls 9 and 10, and a plurality of doors 11 and 12 hinged, respectively, to the side walls 9 and 10.

The keyboard B preferably comprises a strip 13 ran 'ng across the top portion of the cabinet rom the side wall 9 to the side wall 10, and a plurality of keys b mounted on levers 14. Apertures 13a are provided in the strip 13 through which the lever ends carrying the keys b fproject. Each of the keys b may consist o a disk 15 which may bear the number or name of the respective record controlled by the key. The levers 14 extend from the strip 13 at the front of the cabinet, to a point just iorward of the rear wall 8 of the cabinet and are mounted intermediately of their ends `u on a common pivot 16 extending from si e to side of the cabinet and serving as a fulcrum for all of the levers 14. The key-carrying ends of alternate levers are staggered to facilitate close grouping of the keys b. The pivot 16 may be supported from the top wall 6 of the cabinet, as by means of spaced brackets 17 dependmg from such top wall 6 and arranged between the levers 14.

The spacin means C preferably comprises a plura it of horizontal strips 18 of suitable materia and each having one end supported at the rear wall 8 of t e cabinet and the other end supported by a vertical stri 19 ranging from near the bottom wall 7 of t e cabinet to the top wall 6 thereof, and a plurality of horizontal strips 20 'registering with and connected to the vertical strips 19 near the bottom wall 7 of the cabinet and ranging inwardly a distance sli htly less than half the depth of the ca inet. These stri s 2O are mounted in or on a suitable base lock 21 lyin on the bottom 7 of the cabinet and exten ing from the front thereof to the same distance rearwardly as the strips 20. Each of the strips 19 is partially sheathed in a textile material or the like as at 19'* and at its forward edge 19 is provided with a relativel heavy woven or corded braid strip 22 which constitutes the retarding means F.

Each unit of the ejector means D comprises a curved sector 23 of channel section, shown as approximately a 490 de segment of a circle, a link 24, a link 25, and a connecting rod 26. The curved sector 23 has one of its side walls 23a cut away at the upper end as at 23" and such end lies between the next adjacent strips 18 of the spacing means C. The other end of the sector 23 is provided with downwardly depending ears 23 apertured as at 23l to receive a rod 27 passed through all of the sectors 23 and constituting a pivot for the same. Such pivot may be supported in brackets 28 which may extend from the block 21 and in such position as to maintain the bottom wall 23 of the sector adjacent to the inner end of the block 21 and slightly beneath the upper surface of such block, thus forming a step-oilI for the records when the sectors are in normal, record-receiving position. The sector is provided with apertured ears 23 intermediate its ends and the link 25 has one of its ends pivotally connected to such ears as by means of a pivot 29, the other end of the link 25 being pivoted to the forward end of the link 24 as at 30. The rearward end of the link 24 is mounted upon a rd 31 extending from side wall to side wall of the cabinet near the bottom and the rear wall thereof and constituting a pivot forall of such links 24. The connecting rod 26 has one end 26* passed through and hooked in to an apertured projection 24* formed on the link 24 intermediate its ends, and the other end 26h of the rod 26 is passed through' and hooked over an apertured projcction 14" one of which is provided on each of the levers 14 of the keyboard B at the rearward end of such lever.

It will be understood that an ejector unit comprising a curved sector 23 and attendant features, secured to a key lever 14 is provided for each record .to be housed 'in the cabinet and that such segments are disposed, one in each of the spaces provided between adjacent spacing means strips 18, as well as one of such units beingpositioned between the side wall 9 and the next adjacent spacer strip 18 and another of such units disposed between the side wall 10 and the next adjacent spacer strip 18. It is also manifest that the cabinet may be designed to hold as many records as desired, by multiplication of the units and spacers and other attendant features. If desired, `cabinets may be constructed with one tier of record holding and ejecting features. superposed above another, all within a single casing, and without departing from the spirit of the invention.

The operation, method of use, and advantages of the improved phonographic record cabinet will be readily understood from the foregoing description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawing and the following statement:

A disk record may be placed in each of the spaces provided in the cabinet and the` same will rest against the respective curved sector and with its center past the inner end of the block 21, such block preventing any tendency of the record to roll out of the cabinet. When it is desired to remove a record from the cabinet, the corresponding key is depressed and the respective lever 14 through the respective connecting rod 26 raises the respective link 24 and the link connecting it to the sector, thus causing the tilting forwardly of the sector to eject the record. The retarding means F, acting as a drag against the sides of the record, will prevent the record from being projected completely out of the cabinet but allow the record to assume the position of one of the records shown in Fig. 2. When the record is in this position it may be easily removed. After the key b has been released the sector drops back to its normal position in the cabinet the key being raised by the drawing down of the connecting rod 26 when the sector falls by gravity.

Having thus disclosed my invention, I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. In a device of the character disclosed, a casing, an arcuate holding and ejecting member pivotally mounted in said casing, and means for tilting said arcuate holding and ejecting member; said tilting means comprising a pair of links constituting a toggle, a pivoted lever having a key portion, and a connecting rod between said lever and said toggle; means being provided with which said member is pivotally connected and rearward of which the record is supported in engagement with said member and over which the record is rolled on the tilting of said member.

2. In a device of the character disclosed, a casing, a plurality of separate ejecting members pivotally mounted in said casing, spacing means spanning the casing in a plane spaced from the regonof the pivotal' supports of said members and comprising spaced strips, and means for operating said ejecting members to discharge the records from the spaces between said strips; said eiecting members being reduced in width In testimony whereof, I have signed my at then' outer end portions for reception benume to this specification in the presence tween said strips whereby a. minimum width two subscribing witnesses.

of space is provided between said strips to HERBERT G. LA SOR.

5 accommodate the records and the total rec- Witn:

ord-h lding capacity of the casing is rela- Amm H. D tively increased. Fumare L. Isamae. 

